Quick update before I head out to the park tonight (meet me at McFaddens! I’ll be wearing No. 70):<\/p>\n
Gary Matthews Jr.\u00a0has been designated for assignment, at long last — only to be replaced on the roster by … surprise! …\u00a0Omir Santos, our old friend from last season who unfortunately is hitting Class AA pitching about as well as Sarge Jr. hit in the majors this year. This development was sparked by reports indicating Henry Blanco has been hurting. Omir you might recall wore\u00a0No. 9\u00a0last time we saw him.<\/p>\n
Also returning to the squad, and reportedly in tonight’s lineup, is infielder\u00a0Ruben Tejada, who was recalled when\u00a0Luis Castillo\u00a0finally went onto the disabled list with achy breaky feet. Tejada wore\u00a0No. 11\u00a0last time through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Quick update before I head out to the park tonight (meet me at McFaddens! I’ll be wearing No. 70): Gary Matthews Jr.\u00a0has been designated for assignment, at long last — only to be replaced on the roster by … surprise! …\u00a0Omir Santos, our old friend from last season who unfortunately is hitting Class AA pitching … Continue reading “Sgt. Slaughtered”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,320,415,476],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gary-matthews-jr","tag-luis-castillo","tag-omir-santos","tag-ruben-tejada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}